We'll dust his livery with wordy strokes, And in his own outspoken chaff deride him.
As Ovid tells us of his own experience, the Muses wooed him irresistibly away from the practical pursuits of the "wordy forum," and claimed him for their own.
Others joined in the wordy attack, much to the elderly woman's confusion and shame.
Lin had a wordy war with the treasurer soon after the doors opened.
We believe that there was more than the sounding of brass or the tinkling of wordy cymbals in the fervent admonition of the Christ to his followers--'Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
And Gonzalvo who listened to her defiance, fancied that the silent woman of mystery had given her chiding, and that Yahn was doing wordybattle for the new Castilian friends.
If Christian prayers could lift from his shaking hands the pagan doom, it would not do more to make converts here than wordy argument.
One of the commonest experiences of the open-air preacher on the borders of Afghanistan is the wordy warfare in which he is obliged to engage with some bellicose Mullah.
After a "wordy and most abusive dispute" carried on in the Guildhall between the ex-mayor and Gregory de Rokesley who acted as spokesman for the body of aldermen, Hervy left the hall and summoned the craft-guilds to meet him in Cheapside.
And beside Roger, Ulf the Mighty leaned him upon his axe, and in the ranks despite their bandages stood Orson the Tall and Jenkyn o' the Ford, even yet in wordy disputation.
She seemed expostulating, arguing, denouncing, and each wordy sally was met by an equally wordy sally from the Chinaman.
Probably it contained the substance of his thesis, which, like most papers of the time, must have been very wordy and discursive.
Altogether, when the gentlemen were released at five o'clock, they were not in the sweetest of tempers, and entered upon a wordy war in the cloisters.
A wordy war followed, lasting the best part of a half an hour.
Dave was interrupted here by Nat, and a wordywar lasting several minutes followed.
Where the tough champion who, with Calvin's sword, In wordy conflicts battled for the Lord?
There was a constant din of revelry and uproar, mingled with wordy warfare, and an occasional crossing of swords.
So far luck had enabled him to escape all but a wordy bullying.
And it would please me, too, for Gallagher is about as wordy and pompous as any captain I've seen.
Ken replied with more heat than dignity, and quick as a flash he and Reddy and Raymond were involved in a wordy war, trying to place the credit for winning the game.
I know the man, Wordy and shrewd, the son of Sisyphus.
Indeed, it seemed to Peter that to sit in this old room and rewrite the wordy meanderings of the old gentleman's book was the very height of emptiness.
And she had died embittered against him because he had read and had been bewildered by these empty, wordy volumes.
Husband and wife had a wordy argument on this point.
Fear of these ghosts prompted her to suggest taking the children with her, a proposal which led to a wordy discussion as to ways and means.
Some of my long, wordyepistles were indited from the reporters' room at the Daily Gazette office, in the midst of noisy talk and the hurried production of "copy.
In Herrera's studio there were often heated arguments as to merits and demerits, flat contradictions as to facts, and wordy warfare that occasionally resulted in broken furniture.
Seen from a distance, out of the range of the wordy shrapnel, the literary scrimmage is amusing.
